Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

It's an adjectival participle of "to be". It can be translated as "been", "one who is" etc. There is no good equivalent in English.

The "I AM"?

Andriu,

My understanding of the meaning of this Russian term is that it means "the one who is".

That would make sense, as the expression in Russian-translated liturgies is "He Who Is is blessed, Christ our God..." (we Antiochians say "Christ our God, the Existing One, is blessed", which is better English but perhaps obscures the original too much).

In Greek (which the Slavonic is translated from) it's 'O ON, which is written on the cross of Christ's nimbus in icons. It's often rendered in English as "HE WHO IS". This is equivalent to "I AM" or "I AM THAT I AM", which is the original Hebrew and probably the most familiar phrase.

I am not talking about "Егова/Yegova". It seems to me that when I have seen "Yegova" it was a direct carry-over from English, as in Svidetli Yegova (Jehovah's Witnesses).

As Jehovah's Witnesses originated in the USA it's logical that they say their name in the English manner. Russian is far more influenced with Western languages (English, German, French, Latin) than other Eastern Slavic languages.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Come to think of it, how do they say Jehovah in Russian?I am not talking about "Егова/Yegova". It seems to me that when I have seen "Yegova" it was a direct carry-over from English, as in Svidetli Yegova (Jehovah's Witnesses).

You probably don't. Jehova is an English word, invented by someone who thought they had figured out the Hebrew name for G-d (even though there is no "J" in Hebrew...)

Come to think of it, how do they say Jehovah in Russian?I am not talking about "Егова/Yegova". It seems to me that when I have seen "Yegova" it was a direct carry-over from English, as in Svidetli Yegova (Jehovah's Witnesses).

You probably don't. Jehova is an English word, invented by someone who thought they had figured out the Hebrew name for G-d (even though there is no "J" in Hebrew...)

I always thought Jehovah was supposed to pronounce the Latin way, i.e. Iehovah. At least that's how we do it in Malayalam.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.